5YRSPRTY

The design heroes at tank filled their office with people, music and Mack beer this friday night to celebrate their first 5 years of existence - we say 'très bien!'





(..and thank you for the tank tattoo t-shirt!)

Room to grow in

In Dagbladet Søndag december 2 you can read an interesting article over ten pages about three kindergartens with special concepts: Svartlamoen by Brendeland & Kristoffersen, 'den blå appelsin' and our kindergartens in Fjellvegen and Sommereng - buy it and read about children and architecture!

Open art

The Art Academy of Tromsø proposes open lectures - this week Pierre Bismuth, Brussels, and Morten Goll, Copenhagen, are presenting their work and ideas, and discussing with the students - and us!
We highly appreciate having a brand new art school in Tromsø that gives us this opportunity to listen to and discuss with interesting people!

Building competence for the Olympics

Gisle gives a lecture at the Olympic Arena Conference organized by Norwegian Steel Association thursday november 29 in Oslo. His lecture about the olympic venues planned for Tromsø 2018 will be followed by others on the olympic cities of Vancouver, Lillehammer, Sochi, London, Torino, Sydney, Athens and Beijing.

C'est clair!

Some of the first days of the dark period (no sun above the horizon for the next two months) Clara Fraenkel of Ljusarkitektur visited Tromsø together with her collegue Deike Canzler to work with the lights of Strandkanten.

iArrival

Christmas in advance when our iPhones arrived..

Green sector

Torvdalshalsen appears in landscape magazine park & anlegg #10 2007.

Beautiful detours

These beautiful words about the National Tourist Routes are to be read in a supplement called High North - the region of possibilities in today's Dagens Nyheter (november 21).. In addition one can read interesting articles about arctic waters, energy in Barents, scandinavian collaboration projects, climate changes, Strindberg vs Ibsen, jojk, ministers on tour etc.

Norwegian Architecture 2007

70°N is presented with an extraordinary essay written by Knut Eirik Dahl + lots of pictures over 16 pages in the 2007 Yearbook for Norwegian Architecture - Arkitektur i Norge Årbok 2007 published by pax forlag in collaboration with Nasjonalmuséet for kunst, arkitektur og design. The beautiful cover picture is Steinar Skaar's photo of our project in Torvdalshalsen.

remaining X

All that is left of our street art action in the autumn 2005, before the Tromsø X-Files exhibition..

Kindergarten lecture

We are invited to talk about the kindergartens with the design students at Breivang high school. They are studying our kindergarten interiors and furniture for children. Tuesday november 20 Anniken will give a lecture and lead a workshop for the students.

Detour on tour

The festival Les Boréales in Caen, Normandie, shows the Tourist Routes exhibition Detour. The exhibition opens november 12 and will stay in Caen until new year before moving on to Paris..

One billion..

..to the National Tourist Routes project is the head line for a two spread article in today's Dagens Næringsliv, where our Torvdalshalsen project is being presented - entre autres...

Hyttetur

Marianne Sætre of snøhetta came to Tromsø to give a lecture on culture buildings and the processes behind. Of course we fullfilled her wishes of visiting the Skarsfjord cabin, a beautiful saturday was spent in the violet light of the low november sun.

Aurora Crabs

Our landscaping collegues from Aurora Landskap kindly invited to dinner with performance 'the Invasion of the Crabs' this november friday. See the invasion in the slide-show ..